The ending -most is not the adverb most .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Of all egotists, Montaigne, if not the greatest, was the most fascinating, because, perhaps, he was the least affected and most truthful.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is necessarily the seat of his own desires, which, if truly fulfilled, would bring him satisfaction; but the objects in which that satisfaction may be found, and the forces that must co-operate to secure it, lie far afield, and his life will remain cramped and self-destructive so long as he does not envisage its whole basis and co-operate with all his potential allies.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Every man is needed there that can be got." "Laughter is gone out of the world," said Faith Meredith, who had come over to report on her letters.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The Hooves of the fore feet of a Cow dried and taken any away, encrease milk in nurses, the smoke of them drives away mice. Mizaldus.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The entire mourning is not to last more than six weeks, and my opera will not be given before the 20th of January.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The event made it necessary to explain that word, as signifying a year.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Yet Toby en mangeant is not the dog in a manger, no, not by any means!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 107, September 22nd, 1894 by Various

A drive of about eleven miles is necessary to reach the first lake.
— from Summer Provinces by the Sea A description of the Vacation Resources of Eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, in the territory served by the Canadian Government Railways by Prince Edward Island Railway

That an Edmund Morford is not to be picked up every day.
— from Throckmorton: A Novel by Molly Elliot Seawell

Excuse me, I never taught Mrs. Paine.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

These were for use only when an emergency made it necessary to take a start-off from land.
— from White Fire by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Really good stories are rare phenomena, whilst even mediocrity is none too common.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

You must really expect me, if not to sleep and snore aliquando , at least to nod in the course of some thousand pages.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) by George Eliot

Every man is not to be a surveyor or an actuary ; and, therefore, you may stop far short of the knowledge, of this sort, which is demanded by these professions; but, as far as common accounts and calculations go, you ought to be perfect; and this you may make yourself, without any assistance from a master, by bestowing upon this science, during six months, only one half of the time that is, by persons of your age, usually wasted over the tea-slops, or other kettle-slops, alone!
— from Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett